#i got the receipt

[seeseagulls]

#seagull #animal #bird #my #i got the receipt

[rsxavior]

Ya'll think I'm joking. Astarion can't carry a tune to save his life.

#humming #astarion #datamined #i got receipts #bg3

[essektheylyss]

for the ask game: 🧡🖤💚

🧡: What is a popular (serious) theory you disagree with?

Until I see definitive proof that Ludinus is in fact as old as he wants people to believe he is, I will not believe it. I don't even really have an opinion on how old he is; I just don't think he's as old as he tries to suggest. And lest it be said that I am playing favorites, the thing about Ludinus is that he talks the way Essek talks in 91—and there are a lot of things Essek says at that dinner that I take with a good heaping of salt. It's this sense that they're talking around things that they would rather people not question; they're both very skilled at talking around things in a way where they aren't outright lying, but they'd rather you not think too hard about it because there's shit they're not saying. To be clear I also won't be mad if there does turn out to be some evidence in canon that he is that old, but thus far, there is nothing definitive, and I do not take the word of unreliable NPCs at face value.

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

I don't think this is really an unpopular opinion at this point, but Jester. Nice =/= good. I don't think she's evil, by any means! But her morality is a lot more complex than it's given credit for and I think it's one of the things that is most interesting about her. I'd actually consider her largely amoral; it's just not really an axis of consideration that she worries about. She doesn't want people to hurt her or her friends and she doesn't want something to destroy the world, but otherwise she doesn't really care much about what someone's morality is. "Just don't be evil to me" is an incredible sentiment for a reason. She cares more that Essek said they were his friends than the fact that he's the traitor they've been looking for. Ludinus is so insignificant to her despite his literally world-spanning evil plots that she has basically forgotten him six years later, even though two members of her friend group have spent the last six years trying to pin him down. Jester is hilariously amoral and I love that for her.

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

[cracks knuckles] OKAY, this is where I've got receipts, because hooo boy do I have an opinion and I will be proving it.

Essek does not have an opinion on the Prime Deities. He does not really have much of an opinion on religion. He actually does not by the end of the campaign have any real issue with the Luxon, and frankly he primarily expressed issue with the Dynasty's worship because, until he got to Aeor, he wasn't certain that the Luxon was a real entity at all—which he contrasts against the Prime Deities, in fact!—and he seems to believe there is compelling evidence in Aeor that categorically disproves his hypothesis that the beacons are simply constructed Age of Arcanum devices.

Originally he is mostly concerned that the Luxon religion is used as a "crutch" which is "distracting them from what other good things they could do with the time and focus". He does specify that any religion can be used as such, but he only remarks upon the one he knows. His theory about the beacons, as of episode 91, is that they may be "artifacts designed in the Age of Arcanum that have been misread" that could be put to even further use.

He also does parrot the Dynasty party line in their first meeting about the Luxon being "the basis of how we've been able to free ourselves from the binds of the lineage the Betrayer Gods left for us", and while I do not take him at face value here (see the above commentary about unreliable NPCs), I doubt the truth of this statement is lost on him, considering his familial connections to Bazzoxan, which I can only imagine would not exactly endear one to the Betrayers, though this is only conjecture. If we do care to take him at his word here, it's not unreasonable, since he obviously has a lot more interest in the power offered by the beacons than anything else.

With all that being said, his tune on the Luxon itself has at least changed by the time they get to Aeor. He discusses iconography found in Aeor and when prompted by the Nein about whether the beacons were created by mortals, says, "I do not believe that they are made by anyone but the Luxon. They are of the Luxon. But they've been around since the Luxon's been in Exandria, which is the beginning."

So we started with him largely apathetic to religion, uncertain if this god was real, and by the time we circle back to him, he has now sided fairly definitively with the fact that the Luxon is an entity that has been around since at least the Founding. (For those keeping track at home, this is longer than Predathos has been around. In the Dynasty's creation myth, it may also have been around before the Prime Deities arrived, which is technically not incompatible with the creation myth of Exandria at large, but I digress.) Like most of Exandria, and as is perfectly reasonable for both his culture and his region, he probably doesn't have any love for the Betrayer Gods, but doesn't express much opinion if any on the Prime Deities. He has no time for religion, but frankly, he doesn't have time for much except for his own research, so it's hard to really ascribe any noted contempt to that.

Like, look, I've written plenty of religious trauma Essek fic, and I don't doubt that that element of it exists, but overall, in terms of canonical statements, it's pretty tame.

With that being said, I do want to fast forward a bit to draw attention to something else. Because I actually do think he ends the campaign with some measure of respect for, at the very least, the Wildmother.

In 140 after the Raise Dead fails, he talks briefly with Fjord about the unfairness of it. Fjord passively directs him to "if you were to ask my wise friend Caduceus..." Immediately after this exchange, Essek challenges Caleb to not accept defeat, and admits he wishes there was more that he or any of them could do, but concedes that, "Unfortunately, this type of magic is beyond my purview."

Immediately after this exchange, Caduceus asks for divine intervention.

Of course, he then spends several weeks gardening in a temple to the Wildmother, and seems to find some genuine clarity and perspective there, but I think this alone is enough to argue that, for a person as driven by empirical evidence as Essek, this sequence of events in 140 would be plenty to earn a wizard's respect.

So my formal belief is that Essek is not in fact anti-god or anti-religion, let alone against the Prime Deities. My opinion is that it's very easy to imagine him on his post-campaign travels leaving a small offering at any shrine of Melora he might pass, not out of actual worship but as a sign of respect.

#unpopular opinion meme #this got so long and it's late cuz I had to go pull receipts but I am correct on all counts 😤 #but since it's long and I did cite my sources I'll also toss it in #cr meta

[t00thpasteface]

THE SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE GREASE. COMPLAIN EARLY TO THE CORRECT PEOPLE AND MIRACLES WILL HAPPEN

#i got out of a miserable group project full of slackers and mooches by emailing the professor with receipts of damning evidence #literally they haven't done anything at all and i was fed up. i'm not doing the work of 5 people. figure it out without me #shebbz shoutz

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 1 #short fuse #columbimbo pretending to not be able to understand profit=revenue-cost #i do believe his wife does the home finances. he aint got time for that shit #mrs c is like ''frank i need your gas receipts so i can deduct them'' and he's like ''I Thignk I Left My Waulet At McDonald''

[stockholmgf]

i have to mute myself every day on the phone with my bf so i can “tell” him all about the surprises i’m working on for him cause i simply cannot keep my mouth shut

#he gave me a little snoopy journal as part of my valentine’s day gift #so i’m writing little passages in it every time i come up with a reason that i love him or something i admire about him etc #and little momentos here and there like some pressed flowers from the bouquet he got me on his last visit 😁 #and receipts for lil date nights #also trying to learn vietnamese so i can make it a little easier on his family to talk to me #which is HARD ASS LANGUAGE btw #and gonna attempt to crochet a tapestry of his fav MTG card

[stromblessed]

Mel 🔆, Viktor 🌌, and Jayce 🔥 symbolism

SUN 🔆

Mel's association with the sun is self-evident and still mostly shrouded in mystery, though her love scene with Jayce is notable, which is overlaid with starry imagery, where her silhouette and her freckled face are compared to the cosmos. The sun is also a star. It's just the star that's closest to Runeterra and has the most influence over the world.

Mel and the Hexcore are the POVs of the scene.

Hexcore and starry imagery is more strongly and consistently associated with someone else, though!

STARS 🌟 / THE COSMOS 🌌

Viktor's blue to purple pipeline is real

But seriously, the starry/swirly shapes point toward distant stars, the cosmos, a galaxy. There is no moon in Viktor's night scenes throughout the season, only stars.

Viktor's character regresses as the season goes on (blue to purple, ready to fall into Shimmer-like magenta as his corruption nears its peak).

His hubris opens him up to some kind of corruption by the Hexcore, or by whatever - or whoever - is using the Hexcore as a gateway, like what Jinx points out. Singed as his mentor plants and encourages the lie that Viktor believes, that he's better off alone and that the ends justify the means.

These perfectly ruinous circumstances lead to him getting Sky killed (Sky like sky blue, like Inspiration, lost as Viktor has lost sight of good in his pursuit of great).

In his running scene, Viktor runs not from left to right, filmspeak for progression - he runs from right to left, as though backstepping.

(And also for the Rocky Balboa reference called out in this brilliant post, but hey, I think it all works)

It's also worth laying the foundation that Viktor is a fantasy interpretation of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor who was fascinated with electricity, radio signals, the cosmos, and [REDACTED for another post probably lol]

If you've fallen down the rabbit hole of League lore like I have, you might have picked up that peoples and warriors who are sun-worshipers are (at least anciently) tasked with hunting down and destroying Void beings, who are eldritch beings associated with the distant stars, or are Runeterrans constructed by the Void Watchers trapped between realms. The sun fights against interlopers from other dimensions or celestial bodies.

Mel and Viktor have the same ideas about risk and the nature of progress, and they are both technically foreigners living in Piltover and pursuing that progress - in two very different (but complementary) ways. They are most likely the two characters whose literal bodies are celestial, imbued with the Arcane. Their bodies are most likely augmented with magical metals.

Yet the arcane imagery that seems to accompany them respectively are diametrically opposed - Sun vs. Void, possibly. (Also, purple and yellow/gold are opposite or complement colors on the color wheel.)

Whether they wind up working together or whether they clash (as Viktor loses himself) or if it's a mix of both, I think Mel and Viktor are destined to collide in season 2.

So where does this leave Jayce?

FIRE 🔥

Fire for Jayce means more than one thing. The first thing that should come to mind is the fire of the forge. Creation and industry. The legacy and hard work of his family.

However, his FIRST imagery with fire occurs when Elora says "Speak of the devil" and Jayce is framed in flames at Mel's fundraising party.

He's similarly framed in the flames of a Molotov cocktail on the bridge between Piltover and the undercity with Viktor, after he's just called the people of the undercity dangerous.

What I think we're being shown here are Jayce's choices. He can use his talents and influence for good - creation and industry - or he can use them for destruction and oppression. A hammer can create.

A hammer can also be a weapon, a tool of destruction:

Fire can quickly burn and spread out of control.

Hey look, blue all the way to magenta in one scene!

And if you know his original League lore, the reason why his rivalry with [REDACTED] crosses the point of no return - fire and destruction. Yeah.

Jayce is interesting because his point position in the Mel-Viktor-Jayce trifecta makes it tempting to assign celestial imagery to him, too. However, adult Jayce is only present with Hexcore, star, and sun imagery when he is sharing a scene with Viktor or Mel respectively.

The show makes it a point that Mel and Viktor are the reasons he is the Man of Progress at all:

Note that Jayce in the center of his Man of Progress posters is backed by a gear (Viktor) and the sun (Mel). If Viktor had not intervened in episode 2, Jayce would be dead or disenfranchised. If Mel had not intervened in episode 3, then Jayce AND Viktor would have been kicked out of the Academy if not imprisoned or exiled, and Hextech with Jayce and Viktor at the helm would not exist.

(This is reaching, but I like to interpret that the circle + notches in the gear shape are like Viktor's star symbolism, but even if that's the big reach that I think it is, Viktor is a machinist, engineer, and techmaturgist with Artificer parents - the gear definitely represents him on a meta level)

The imagery that I believe is Jayce's and Jayce's alone is that of fire. He is terrestrial, using magic contained within tools the way he has always wanted to bring Hextech to every household, while Mel and Viktor are influenced by magic on a whole other level.

Sure would be a shame if Jayce found a reason to choose the path of destruction and be corrupted further, diverging from Mel and Viktor's core values

Sure would be a shame if Viktor's personal choices had consequences that radiated out further than season 1 and he gets put on a disastrous collision course with everything that Jayce and by extension Piltover hates and fears

Sure would be stressful for us if Arcane decided to be a Greek tragedy about it

Though possibly the most important piece of this picture is how Mel - gold like the sun, gold that doesn't tarnish or rust, gold that is an excellent conductor - has already faced the abyss and said NO to her own corruption:

It sure would be something for her to have to watch Jayce and Viktor go down a different path, huh

#arcane #mel medarda #viktor #jayce talis #Theres been a lot of interpretations of symbolism in Arcane but this is where my personal beliefs lie #I take it as matter of fact that Mel survives like Im still flabbergasted that yall think she dies but I suppose we shall see #This post needs to be broken down into like 10 different posts but it's fine weve got 11 months til season 2 to cook its fine #and like 5 of those 10 posts need to be about Jayce alone like there is a lot to unpack and I do not say that lightly #but who I actually want to write about is Mel bc the fandom assuming that shes dead has completely nuked so much #of what the Mel-Viktor-Jayce storyline is trying to say AND what the ENTIRE storyline of all of Arcane is trying to say #I swear to god I will bring the receipts #and I will corrupt you all with my Mel + Viktor agenda on the side ehehehehehe

[sweatyrickgrimes]

this is what they did when no one was looking btw

#I got the idea to do this at work so there’s like an extra terrible version of this on a piece of receipt paper #rick grimes #negan #rick x negan #regan #twd fanart #art #twd meme #I guess? idk it’s meant to be funny

[black-and-yellow]

ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏ ɪᴛ ɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟʟʏ

#obsessed with the dancing in the Movement music video #that s how he dances #sorry i do not make the rules #i had a dream that i got a lift with some guy who looked like a reddit mod #to the supermarket #and at the checkout he just bagged the stuff and ran #i tried to pay for it by looking at the receipt but the cashier told me that it was illegal to look at other peoples receipts #but the manager said i did the right thing #i was still afraid i would go to jail for being associated with the grocery thief #so i went to visit my pals #they saw me crying. they crew too. we all crode #then I rode around on a little electric scooter wheeeee haha #bnha #mha #bnha au #hizashi yamada #present mic #villain!mic #loudspeaker au

[unpretty]

every time i catch myself worrying about how much detail to put on an invoice, i think about jeff - rats and go my invoice is fine actually.

you would think "please include the name we need to make the payment out to as well as the address we need to send it to and the amount of the payment" would not be a big ask but here we are

#original #the only other thing that would be nice would be unique invoice numbers #that i can print on the check so i don't get a phone call that our payment was late bc you didn't know where to apply it #we've got one company that gives receipts for orders bought on credit and each receipt has an invoice number #which is ONLY visible on the monthly statement. there is no sign of an invoice number on the receipt. why. #what is DOES have is a receipt number which makes no appearance on the statement. or anywhere but the receipt. why.

[hermit-frog]

either Rashid is in a extremely good relationship with his boss or he’s not a servant/assistant

that grip though. and Louis gives in immediately? 

the power dynamic. Rashid acts like an equal to Louis. noticed it right away. he just walks around and does whatever he wants. also he’s sassy af and doesn’t hide it (and icon. i stan)

not to be that person but this looks more like someone apologizing for their partner (Mr. du Lac my ass Rashid)

after Daniel had slapped Louis (the audacity) Rashid’s hand never leaves Louis’ shoulder, i mean????

#interview with the vampire #iwtv spoilers #iwtvedit #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #i'm back on my bs #if yall interested i can make more #unfortunately i don't have ep4 yet. it got the best receipts #i'm delusional i know. let me be #i don't even ship them. i just find all of this entertaining #whenever Rashid is on the screen i'm👀✍ #these posts are embarrassing but i'm having fun #Armand #Vampterview

[jay-wasreblogging]

Sherlock definitely no longer uses Uber Eats or any other food delivery app because one time he was so excited and waited patiently for his meal just for it to be entirely wrong.

#yeah this just happened to me just now. i ordered a hsp from my regular place and waited so excited just for the order to be wrong #😭😭 started crying fr #i got like a rice dish with lamb and coke....? i ordered a small hsp with lift so idk whose order this is (there's no receipt on the bag so) #sherlock & co #sherlock and co #sherlock holmes #sherlock #goalhanger podcasts

[chvoswxtch]

“this is calm, and it’s doctor.”

#sassy reid is my favorite reid #this scene lives rent free in my head #he really ate them up #he said don’t play with me i’m a literal genius bitch I got RECEIPTS #spencer reid the man that you are #spencer reid #criminal minds

[sarafangirlart]

it’s kinda weird to criticize Athena for being the patron of Athens a misogynist society but go out and praise Apollo being the patron god of Sparta a hyper-militaristic slave society who treated their slaves poorly even by ancient standards yes I’ve seen people do this

Ppl acting like Sparta was feminist too (sure as long as you aren’t poor or a slave) even tho women were still expected to get married and become baby making machines just like everywhere else.

#but middle/upper class women got more personal freedom than in other places so it’s fine!! #y’all Sparta can be your problematic fave it’s ok #also ppl who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones I have the receipts to prove that Apollo doesn’t respect women either #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #athena #pallas athena #athena greek mythology #athena goddess of wisdom #athena goddess #Apollo #Apollôn #apollo greek mythology #apollo greek god #apollo god #apollon

[tonariofjananda]

Based on a this ask

#TYE Spoilers #March #Eko #Iddy #Messar Robin Bastar #should I tag Kai and Gugu? they’re technically there (Hairo too. if you squint) #My Art #To Your Eternity #To You The Immortal #Fumetsu No Anata E #Getting some practice in drawing some of the other goobers #if you can believe it I have the most trouble drawing March out of any of em lol #Like Gugu’s difficult but it’s because the mask is so intricate #but March has that round little face and sometimes when I draw her hair she just ends up looking like a pear lol #Messar’s hair was pretty tough too but I also wasn’t looking at too many references so that one’s on me #anyway I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEIR DYNAMIC IM SO GLAD WE GOT TO SEE THEM ARGUING AND MARCH NAGGING HIM AUGH #and Iddy having March’s back with the receipts lol like AH I imagine they’re like partners in crime sorta (or Justice I suppose) #Messar was gonna be yawning all ugly to show that the conversation bored him but I guess I succumbed to his charm cuz he turned out real hot #like. idk what happened. I guess i want him now 🫶 #sad i cant post this on Twitter or Instagram at the moment cuz my friends still haven’t finished Season 2 #so y’all are getting the first look 👍 #as soon as they catch up all of this is fair game tho

[originalaccountname]

youre so real, ive even become tempted to filter out "Mori Ougai is an Asshole" just bc of the sheer variety, which ranges from mafia-boss-esque-attitude 👍-> "well okay maybe we shouldnt allocate creepy/warning/bad person to just being an asshole" 😞

its just wild whiplash seeing it right next to "dazai is an asshole" and the levels being severely different

"Mori Ougai Being An Asshole", "Creepy Mori Ougai", "Mori Ougai Is His Own Warning" and "Bad Person Mori Ougai" are all filtered out for me because I can't do this anymore, and if the writer felt the need to tag it, there's a 98% chance I won't like whatever messed up thing the writer made him do.

He is manipulative, but in a nurturing way. His tactics are (mostly) subtle and meant to push people into the potential he sees in them. He cares for results, not the method! That means that unconventional methods do not bother him, and disobeying orders doesn't matter so long at the end result is good (see: Akutagawa going on the Moby Dick against direct orders and Mori going "eh, it's whatever" to Chuuya)

Anyway. Free my man he did none of that (he did a bunch of other things though)

(actually his most common crime is disregarding people's feelings in favour of efficiency, from forcing Yosano and the soldiers to keep going, to sacrificing Oda and telling Dazai he should be fine with it because results!, and a bunch of smaller incidents of similar nature)

#this was gonna be thrice as long but i calmed down and got to the point instead #i can't pull receipts every time i share an opinion #ask answered #apparently i talk sometimes